Week in photos: March 18-22

Revellers celebrate Ash Monday with a colorful “flour war,” a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the Orthodox Easter season.

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Bosnian special forces line up during a drill (focused on preventing soccer-related violence) in Nemila ahead of this week’s World Cup qualifier between Greece and Bosnia.

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A pair of brown bears appear to be having a heated arguement (we expect it’s in regards to who’ll be shoveling the driveway) in their snowy Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo enclosure in Hamburg, Germany.

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A Somali man hefts a pair of large sailfish to market in Mogadishu, where the country’s longest period of (relative) peace in over 20 years could lead to a boom in its costal economy.

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A lone fan waits out a rain delay in the stands at Hammond Stadium during a spring training game between the Minnesota Twins and the Miami Marlins in Fort Myers, Fla.

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Members of the Seton Hill University’s women’s lacrosse team mourn during a memorial mass on the school’s Greensburg, Pa., campus Coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when the team’s bus over the weekend.

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Spanish star Rafael Nadal celebrates his win over Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina to take the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif.

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A member of the Somali security forces flees the site of a car bombing in central Mogadishu. At least eight people were killed.

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The Brooklyn Nets embrace ahead of their game with the Atlanta Hawks at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

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Windswept snow blankets a field at Hungary’s national police headquarters near Acs.

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Filipino college students launch a computer monitor off a balcony at Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila in protest of what they call unjust tuition policies. A student at another university killed herself in response to being expelled for unpaid bills.

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The trees at the Moshan Hill Scenic Spot in Wuhan, China, appear to light up the night.

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An acrobat from the Chinese National Circus bowls over the audience during a performance of a new program — titled ‘Feng Shui Life Harmony’ — in Brno, Czech Republic.

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Prelates fill the square behind a statue of Saint Peter during Pope Francis’ inauguration mass at the Vatican.

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A North Korean guard scans the demilitarized zone near Paju, South Korea, as the US continued to fly saber-rattling training missions over the South.

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Imants Lagodskis of Latvia and Vladislav Baytsaev of Russia lock up during their men’s 96kg bronze-medal bout at the European Senior Wrestling Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia. The sport is still reeling from the International Olympic Committee’s decision to cut it from the Games.

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Snow covers a blossoming tree in Dresden, Germany.

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Cypriots raise their palms — all reading ‘No’ — in protest outside the parliament in Nicosia against an EU bailout deal that slaps a levy on all Cypriot bank savings.

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Vernon Reid, singer of Living Color, performs in Prague, part of the legendary group’s Vivid 25th anniversary tour.

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Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub, sits in its cage at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. The cub’s mother was shot in Point Lay, Alaska, last week and is being cared for at the zoo until it has a permanent home.

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Dallas Stars’ Loui Eriksson goes skates-up into the Calgary Flames’ bench during the first period of their game in Dallas.

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A model slinks along the checkered floor at the Adriana Degreas summer collection show during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil.

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Cigarette butts adorn a human skull in a piece by artist Lumturi Blloshmi displayed as a warning at the entrance of a health clinic in Tirana, Albania.

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Ukrainian deputies have a lively debate during a session in the national Parliament in Kiev. They were scheduled to discuss the date of the capitol city’s mayoral election.

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A man dives into a mud puddle at Devil’s Backbone, a tradition expected to bring healings and miracles in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

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An Afghan Army soldier stands sentry on a hill overlooking the Kart-e Sakhi mosque in Kabul as thousands prepare to celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year

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A honeybee sidles up to a snowdrop flower in Klosterneuburg, Austria, on the first day of spring.

First Dog Bo surveys the scene while joining first lady Michelle Obama at an Easter celebration with military families at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md.

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Retired Iraq war veteran Marine Corporal Ryan Lamke visits the grave of friend and fellow Marine Corporal Benny G. Cockerham III at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on the 10th anniversary of the war’s first shots.

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A 30-inch puppet models a miniature version of a design from the Fause Haten summer collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil.

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Firefighters douse a Falla during the last day of the Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain, which celebrates the arrival of spring with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires fueled with large puppets named Ninots.

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An Indian laborer in Siliguri prepares colored powder known as “gulal” to be used during the spring festival of Holi.

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A skier soars during a training session for the World Cup Freestyle Slope at the World Cup Snowboard and FreeStyle Super finals at Sierra Nevada ski resort near Granada, Spain.

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New York City emergency services officers are covered in mud and dirt upon returning to the surface after rescuing a construction worker trapped underground while working on the 2nd Avenue subway.

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Jae Jae shakes off after a dip at his new home at the London Zoo’s just-opened Sumatran tiger enclosure, called Tiger Territory.

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Hindu devotees pelt each other with colored powder at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana, India.

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A mom gives water to her young daughter at a camp for displaced Somalians in El-Fasher.

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A hare cowers in the snow on a field near Frankfurt, Germany.

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A man peers from his window at a bout between Frank Sanchez, left, and Julio Bernal during a boxing tournament at a boxing gym in Old Havana, Cuba. Pro boxing, banned with all other professional sports in 1961, is making a return on the communist island.

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Police officers work at the site of a two-helicopter crash near the Olympic stadium in Berlin. The helicopters crashed as they were landing after a training exercise.

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Palestinian groom Emad al-Malalha, 21, walks with his Egyptian bride Manal Abu Shanar, 17, through a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border. Abu Shanar was not given permission to enter Gaza, so the pair decided to use the illegal shipping lane.

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Coach Mike Krzyzewski watches his Duke Blue Devils prepare for their opening round NCAA tournament game with Albany in Philadelphia.

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A bodysurfer pushes through a wave at the Ehukai sandbar near the break known as ‘Pipeline’ on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

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A white tiger cub growls for the camera at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina. The cub was born Jan. 14 to mom Cleo.

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Judges applaud the celebration of Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili after he won a bronze medal in the 120kg freestyle competition at the Senior Wrestling European Championship in Tbilisi, Georgia.